Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Combat Controller for Xbox 360 - Snow

I was really excited to get this controller, I love the idea of the buttons on the back. Unfortunately, within about two minutes I realized it was poorly designed. The buttons on the back are situated way too high on the controller, they can't be reached easily (Defeating their entire purpose). And the joysticks and D-Pad are all much stiffer than a normal Xbox controller, which doesn't seem like a big problem, but after about 20 minutes my thumbs started to hurt. Very disappointed, I returned it the next day.

When I saw this controller I was quite weary of all the negative reviews, but in the end I would have to say that this controller is absolutely fantastic for any games that use the analog stick buttons. It definitely deserves 5 out of 5 stars if you are playing Modern Warfare 2, but maybe only 4 out of 5 stars with most other games that don't use the right/left analog stick buttons. Since it was designed specifically for "Modern Warfare 2" I must give it a 5 star rating.

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1. The controller has two extra buttons on the bottom face. These buttons can be pressed by using your middle fingers. At first it felt really funny using my middle fingers to press the extra buttons, but this actually took all of 20 minuets to get used to; quite a nice substitute. Maybe in the future, controllers will be made with pinky finger buttons.

These two extra buttons are what really make this controller great. Basically, these buttons can substitute for two other...Read more

There is no way any experienced gamers can really enjoy this controller and maximize their gameplay, compared to the stock Microsoft controller. Trigger and bumper placement is just totally off. Also, if you try to use this controller with GOW2 Multi-player, it does not work properly. I'm not sure if the system detects it as a modded controller or what. I'm not the only person to have this issue as the gamestop employee I returned this thing to, suffered similar issues. They had a perfect opportunity to capitalize on a market that consists of no controllers that are better than the MS wired 360 controller (wireless controllers suffer split second latency). My only gripe with the MS 360 controller is that the D-Pad is garbage. If the D-Pad worked like the PS3's, then I wouldn't have even been in the market for a different controller. Mad Catz = Mad Failz